Tearing Down the Berlin Walls of Today

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Special Issue: Liberty Forum and Freedom Dinner 2014

Commemorating the Tearing Down of the Berlin Wall

In front of more than 600 champions of liberty at the 2014 Freedom Dinner, Atlas Network’s Templeton Leadership Fellow, Garry Kasparov called for principled leadership on behalf of human rights and free society values. Tearing down the Berlin Walls of Today depends on it.

Kasparov remarked, “If people like Obama and Cameron had been in charge instead of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s I would still

HIGHLIGHTS Winter 2014/2015

Lithuanian Free Market Institute wins $100,000 Templeton Freedom Award

The Municipal Performance Index builds the case for policy change at the local level. It

measures and ranks the performance of municipal governments. LFMI President Zilvinas Silenas said, “The performance index is an easy self-evaluation tool for municipalities. As a byproduct of the index, we have been able to go to various cities and meet mayors, local entrepreneurs, and citizens to discuss

issues and solutions related to their schools, taxes, or debts.”

The methodology comprised 55 indicators and anchored the evaluation criteria in the underlying values of freedom of choice, private ownership and initiative, free enterprise, efficient use of public resources, and transparent and accountable governance.

LFMI’s project has prompted local competition to engage in market-friendly reforms. Awarded since 2004, the Templeton Freedom Award is named for the late investor and philanthropist Sir John Templeton. The award annually honors his legacy by recognizing the most exceptional and innovative contributions to the understanding of free enterprise, and the public policies that encourage prosperity, innovation, and human fulfillment via free competition. The award is generously supported by Templeton Religion Trust.

A retrospective of the award, Celebrating A Decade of the Templeton Freedom Award, is available upon request.

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Atlas Network’s 2014 Liberty Forum and Freedom Dinner took place during the week of the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, and featured chess

legend and 2014 Atlas Templeton Leadership Fellow Garry Kasparov.

Zilvinas Silenas accepting Atlas Network’s 2014

Templeton Freedom Award

When Bill Sumner stepped down from Atlas Network’s Board of Directors in November 2013, John Blundell introduced a motion in his honor that was approved unanimously: “Resolved: That this board hereby elects its long serv-ing member Bill Sumner to ‘emeritus’ status; that this Board recognizes and thanks Bill for his decades of services including two as chairman following on our founder, the late Sir Antony Fisher; and that this Board hopes it can

continue to draw on Bill’s wisdom, knowl-edge, and counsel in years to come.”One year later, Gerry Ohrstrom and The George L. Ohrstrom Jr. Foundation have made possible the William O. Sumner

Event Series. The program will allow Atlas Network to partner with friendly organizations to bring the ideas of a free society to new audiences. We are tremendously grateful for the generous gift making the program possible, and for Bill’s leadership and frequent admonitions that we focus our efforts where we can create leverage for the freedom movement. The William O. Sumner Event Series will do just that.

We want to take the opportunity to extend a special thank you to the Smith Family Foundation for its support of this year’s Freedom Dinner and to the Templeton Religious Trust for its support of the 2014 Templeton Freedom Award.

THANK YOU TO OUR GENEROUS SPONSORS

CEO’S CORNERThis edition of Highlights shares the excitement of Atlas Network’s 2014 Liberty Forum. Our flagship annual conference has gained a reputation for being the most exciting freedom movement event of the year. What makes it so special?

At Liberty Forum, our partners and supporters from around the world come together to celebrate excellence within our industry — and to learn from it, and be inspired by it so each of us can accomplish more for liberty back home.

We also come together because we want to be connected with one another. We want to remember our fallen heroes. I know I’m not alone in missing John Blundell and Leonard Liggio, who showed us how to be catalysts to our movement’s bright future.

This future was on display at Liberty Forum — in the “Shark Tank” presentations by new graduates of our Atlas Leadership Academy, in the Elevator Pitches by our new class of Think Tank MBA participants, in the faces of young people from 58 different countries. We discussed a number of threats to freedom — for example, the use of wealth inequality as a wedge issue to discredit the free market, the way freedom rights have been marginalized in discussions of human rights, and the new fascist ambitions of Vladmir Putin and his allies.

Serious as the threats are, the freedom movement has never before had the kind of “global response capability” as we do today. Its strength is to be credited in part to the loyal Atlas Network donors who have invested in it, and programs like Liberty Forum that show us how much we have to celebrate.

SUPPORTER SPOTLIGHT

Brad Lips, Atlas Network CEO

Allison Burns, Nancy Sumner, Steve Sumner, Bill Sumner, and Gerry Ohrstrom.

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be playing chess for the Soviet Union!” The Freedom Dinner served as the grand finale to a memorable Liberty Forum that revolved around the theme of “Today’s Berlin Walls.”

The Berlin Wall was a physical and symbolic representation of the barriers between the free world and authoritarian control. When it came down 25 years ago, millions of people suddenly had the freedom to live their lives as they wanted to. Similar walls — both physical and symbolic — still exist all over the world. They may feel permanent to those living on the other side. Liberty Forum and Freedom dinner showcased some of Atlas Network’s partners that are in the business of tearing down today’s Berlin Walls.

Casey Lartigue of Freedom Factory, based in Seoul, South Korea, introduced North Korean refugee Yeonmi

Park, who shared her harrowing escape through China to Mongolia, and her discovery of free-society values. Freedom Factory calls attention to brave individuals like Yeonmi whose personal stories testify to the crimes and dysfunction of the North Korean regime.

During a special Atlas Club Briefing, friends of freedom described the ongoing crisis in Venezuela, while relaying messages from imprisoned opposition leaders Leopoldo Lopez and María Corina Machado.

One “intellectual Berlin Wall” that needs toppling is the idea that the ‘social justice’

warriors of the Left represent the interests of society’s least well-off. During his Liggio Lecture, Professor John Tomasi of Brown University explained, “There’s no reason for people who care about free markets and are committed to individual liberty and personal responsibility … to be afraid of the term ‘social justice.’ Quite the contrary.”

His lecture used a play from pre-World War I London to illustrate how free trade had been widely understood as benefiting the lower classes. Tomasi also shared letters from free-society champions like F.A. Hayek and James Buchanan that found common ground with philosopher John Rawls. He used this to point to an opportunity to win the argument about true social justice.

The Templeton Freedom Award finalists explained how they are toppling other Berlin Walls including the education status quo, the high-tax consensus in Europe, the inevitability of Obamacare, the expropriation of private property, and changing the conversation about the morality of free enterprise, defeating entrenched cultures of overspending and cronyism.

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Atlas Network supporter Jenny Cerasuolo greets North Korean refugee Yeonmi Park.

Without a strong stand based on refusing to negotiate over the value of individual freedom, [the Berlin] Wall would still be standing today. Yes, there were alliances and rivalries and realpolitik for decades. Yes, individuals played a part on both sides, from Ronald

Reagan and Margaret Thatcher to Lech Walesa and Pope John Paul II, to Mikhail Gorbachev unleashing forces he could not control. The critical theme was as simple as it was true: the Cold War was about good versus evil, and, just as importantly, that this was not just a matter of philosophy, but a real battle worth fighting. Society supported the efforts of those great leaders. Society supported the fight

and the principles behind it. But as Milton Friedman wrote in 1980, ‘Society doesn’t have values. People have values.’ So we must talk to people about these principles of freedom. We must spread this message far and wide.

—Garry Kasparov, Legendary Chess Champion, and Atlas Network 2014 Templeton Leadership Fellow

Templeton Freedom Award finalists with Jennifer Templeton Simpson, granddaughter of the late Sir John Templeton

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A TRIBUTE TO LEONARD LIGGIO, AND SECOND ANNUAL LIGGIO LECTURELeonard P. Liggio, executive vice president of academics at Atlas Network, passed away Oct. 14, 2014 at the age of 81. Leonard’s career advancing liberty spanned seven decades, during which time he served as the president of the Mont Pelerin Society, the Philadelphia Society, and the Institute for Humane Studies, where he later continued to serve as its distinguished senior scholar. He was a professor at George Mason University, a visiting professor at the Universidad Francisco Marroquín, a board member of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a board member of The Freda Utley Foundation, and a trustee of Liberty Fund.

Alex Chafuen and the late John Blundell once wrote that, if F.A. Hayek was the great architect of the revival of classical liberalism, then Leonard has been its “great builder, building a worldwide movement … one career at a time.”

During Liberty Forum and Freedom Dinner, Atlas Network and friends of liberty paid tributes to Leonard and the legacy he left. During the tribute, Alex Chafuen served as master of ceremonies. Ingrid Gregg, president of the Earhart Foundation, and Jon Basil Utley, Atlas Network Advisory Council member, gave tributes to the late Leonard Liggio.

Atlas Network continued its tradition of honoring Leonard’s impact on the freedom movement with the Second Annual Liggio Lecture.

This year’s Liggio Lecture was presented by John Tomasi, founder of the Political Theory Project at Brown University. Another student of Leonard’s, Randy Barnett of Georgetown University, was announced as the upcoming Liggio Lecturer for 2015.

Past Liggio Lectures can be accessed at LeonardLiggio.org, a website maintained by Atlas Network thanks to hundreds of “Friends of Leonard” who have contributed to the Liggio Legacy Project. The site also includes a treasure trove of Leonard’s own writings, as well as many tributes to his essential contributions to the revival of classical liberalism.

Paul Liggio, seated at center with his wife Joyce and son Adam, attended the first Liggio Lecture since the

passing of his brother Leonard. Also pictured are Atlas Network’s Paolo Angelini and Brad Lips.

Ingrid Gregg of Earhart Foundation offered a warm tribute to Leonard Liggio: “We will always be Leonard’s

students — his apprentices in liberty.”

This archival photo shows Leonard Liggio, right, with John Blundell, who also passed away in 2014 and was the subject of a

tribute at the Liberty Forum.

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REMEMBERING JOHN BLUNDELLFour months after the unexpected news of John Blundell’s passing, hundreds of friends of liberty celebrated his life and legacy during a special reception at the Liberty Forum.

We shared an excerpt of a video tribute developed by Acton Institute and Blundell’s book, Waging the War of Ideas, thanks to the Institute of Economic Affairs. We also distributed a newly revised version of John Blundell’s “Fundraising for the Free Society” primer as part of our RoadMaps series on think tank management topics, as well as a John Blundell Reader with 12 articles sharing Blundell’s insights and giving a sense of his wide-ranging interests.

Special remarks were given by Mark Littlewood, Blundell’s successor as general director of the Institute of Economic Affairs; Warren Lammert, a member of Atlas Network’s Advisory Council who encountered Blundell when Warren was a student going through programs at the Institute for Humane Studies; Marty Zupan, president and CEO of the Institute for Humane Studies; James Tooley of the E.G. West Centre, whose book The Beautiful Tree was praised by Blundell as one of the five best policy books of the past five decades; and Eamonn Butler, director of the Adam Smith Institute, who grew up with Blundell and worked with him over decades as a friend and collaborator.

Butler announced the creation of the John Blundell Scholarships Program at the Adam Smith Institute to benefit rising scholars.

John Blundell Elevator Pitch CompetitionAtlas Network also renamed the prize given at its Elevator Pitch Competition, held just prior to the Blundell reception, in honor of John, who had identified this annual tradition as his favorite aspect of the Liberty Forum. The assembled audience selected Jonathan Isaby of the UK’s TaxPayers’ Alliance as the 2014 winner of the John Blundell Elevator Pitch Competition Award.

Isaby took home the $1,000 grand prize.Christian Zaens of the Institute for Solidarity in Asia based in Philippines, and Ximena Ramirez of Chile-based Libertad y Desarrollo won second and third place, respectively.

The John Blundell Elevator Pitch Competition was sponsored by James Whitaker, the Lovett and Ruth Peters Foundation, and William and Minnie Caruth III. To sponsor the John Blundell Elevator Pitch Competition, contact Stephanie@AtlasNetwork.org.

“There are many ways in which we can remember John Blundell. As a gifted writer; as an insightful and penetrating policy analyst;

as an amazing, talented administrator; and as a visionary for liberty.” —Warren Lammert, founder and chief investment officer of Granite Point

Capital and member of Atlas Network’s Advisory Council

Christine Blundell is joined by John Tomasi, who gave the 2014 Liggio Lecture.

Jonathan Isaby (The TaxPayers’ Alliance, UK)

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ATLAS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY2014 Graduates

Atlas Network recognizes 32 leaders of free-market think tanks as this year’s class of graduates of the Atlas Leadership Academy (ALA), and welcomes them to the global network of ALA Alumni. This year’s graduates include Candelaria de Elizalde, general coordinator of Fundación Libertad y Progreso in Argentina. She participated in this year’s Think Tank MBA, and was runner-up in this year’s Shark Tank competition.

Guillermo Peña Panting also graduated from ALA this year. Guillermo established Fundación Eléutera in 2013 to promote classical liberal ideas in Honduras. He has used ALA programs to build detailed strategic plans for his organization.

Participants must earn 12 credits to graduate from the Atlas Leadership Academy. Learn more and enroll at: AtlasNetwork.org/Academy

2014 Graduates of the Atlas Leadership Academy:Gilmarie Ethel Briones, Foundation for Economic Freedom (Philippines)Rory Broomfield, The Freedom Association (United Kingdom)Admir Čavalić, Libertarian Association “Multi” (Bosnia and Herzegovina)Nikos Charalambous, Liberty Forum of Greece (Greece)Isack Danford, Uhuru Initiative (Tanzania)Candelaria de Elizalde, Fundación Libertad y Progreso (Argentina)Brad DeVos, Bastiat Society (United States)Rafael Gutierrez Serrano, CIDAC, Center of Research for Development (Mexico)Christiana Hambro, Institute of Economic Affairs (United Kingdom)Jonathan Isaby, The TaxPayers’ Alliance (United Kingdom)Casey Lartigue, Freedom Factory (South Korea)Isabella Loaiza Saa, Centro Libertad y Emprendimiento (Colombia)Richard Lorenc, Foundation for Economic Education (United States)Paul McCarthy, Mannkal Economic Education Foundation (Australia)Stoyan Panchev, Bulgarian Libertarian Society (Bulgaria)Guillermo Peña Panting, Fundación Eléutera (Honduras)Giannina Raffo, CEDICE (Venezuela)Ximena Ramirez, Libertad y Desarrollo (Chile)Baladevan Rangaraju, India Institute (India)Armando Regil, IPEA (Mexico)Craig Richardson, Energy and Environment Legal Institute (United States)Michael Rotich, Eastern Africa Policy Centre (Kenya)Clark Ruper, Students for Liberty (United States)Ali Salman, PRIME (Pakistan)Žilvinas Šilėnas, Lithuanian Free Market Institute (Lithuania)Ruzica Stojanovska, Ohrid Institute (Macedonia)Medeni Sungur, 3H Movement (Turkey)Nathan Tjirimuje, Chevauchee Foundation (Namibia)Juliano Torres, Estudantes Pela Liberdade (Brazil)Matthew Tyrmand, Open The Books (United States)Eline van den Broek, Quid Novi Foundation (Netherlands/United States)Peter Yakobe, Center for Free Market Enterprise (Malawi)Tricia Yeoh, Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs (Malaysia)Vytautas Žukauskas, Lithuanian Free Market Institute (Lithuania)

Matthew Tyrmand, Richard Lorenc, and Giannina Raffo at Atlas After Dark with Lindy Vopnfjörð

Bridgett Wagner and Nancy March at Liberty Forum

Rory Broomfield and Atlas Network Advisory Council Member Leo Kayser III

Ximena Ramirez, Candelaria de Elizalde, Christiana Hambro, and Ruzica Stojanovska

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23 LIBERTY LEADERS GRADUATE FROM THINK TANK MBA PROGRAM

The Atlas Leadership Academy’s 7th annual Think Tank MBA program added 23 promising leaders of liberty to the Think Tank MBA alumni roster of over 140 free-market leaders worldwide.

This year’s participants represented 18 different countries. Participants spent 11 intensive days in Fairfax, Virginia, drafting a strategic plan that includes strategies for fundraising, communications, and human resource management.

“What we do back in the Philippines is something that makes me get out of bed every morning. After the Atlas Network experience, I will be getting up with more sprite and spunk knowing that I have powerful tools in my freedom arsenal. Thank you, a thousand times over.” —Christian Zaens (Institute for Solidarity in Asia, Philippines)

Christian Zaens (Institute for Solidarity in Asia, Philippines), Ruzica Stojanovska (Ohrid Institute, Macedonia), and

Nathan Tjirimuje (Chevauchee Foundation, Namibia) enjoy a reception and dinner at Atlas Network Board Chairman Dan

Grossman’s home during the 2014 Think Tank MBA.

Tricia Yeoh (Insitute for Democracy and Economic Affairs, Malaysia) presents elements of a strategic plan at Think

Tank MBA.

Zohrab Ismayil (Public Association for Assistance to Free Economy, Azerbaijan) and Mateusz Sabat (Civil

Development Forum, Poland) present their group campaign during Think Tank MBA.

Think Tank MBA participant Jasmin Guénette (Montreal Economic Institute, Canada)

delivers his elevator pitch during the John Blundell

Elevator Pitch Competition.

The Think Tank MBA Class of 2014

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THINK TANK SHARK TANKCongratulations to the winner of this year’s $25,000 Think Tank Shark Tank competition, Baladevan Rangaraju of New Delhi-based India Institute for the “i-torney: a people’s pocket lawyer mobile app” project proposal.

i-torney will help India’s population understand its rights, and will serve as an easily accessible tool to support individuals if they become unduly detained. i-torney will explain various legal offenses, check the legality of an arrest, send an S.O.S. message to predetermined contacts, and create a timeline of the incident.

Baladevan Rangaraju is the founder and director of India Institute. He is the co-author, with James Tooley and Pauline Dixon, of The Private School Revolution in Bihar: Findings From A Survey in Patna Urban, India’s first landscape study of school market in a city. Its pioneering use of GPS technology to measure private school popularity helped change the state government’s stance in favor of unlicensed schools.

Candelaria de Elizalde of Argentina’s Libertad y Progreso was awarded a $10,000 runner-up grant for the “Already on the Road to Serfdom” video series project proposal.

The other competitors of this year’s Think Tank Shark Tank included Patrick Reasonover of Taliesin Nexus (United States) for his “Erasmus Documentary Film Series” project proposal and Cristina Berechet of Civismo (Spain) for her “Sustainable Pensions for Spain” project proposal.

The Think Tank Shark Tank competition is generously sponsored by the Rising Tide Foundation. During Liberty Forum and Freedom Dinner, Atlas Leadership Academy graduates pitch their most exciting and strategic new project ideas before a panel of esteemed judges for the chance to win a $25,000 prize.

Baladevan Rangaraju gives the winning presentation at the Think Tank Shark Tank competition in front of our Liberty Forum audience and panel of judges (from foreground to background): Terry Kibbe, Don Smith, Ron Manners, Nikos Monoyios, and Luis Ball.

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ATLAS NETWORK EVENTS

FISHER AWARDAtlas Network’s longest-running prize, the Sir Antony Fisher International Memorial Award, went to the Institute of Economic Affairs for publishing Foundations of a Free Society, authored by Eamonn Butler of the Adam Smith Institute.

The book was recognized by our prize’s judges as contributing the most, among all other nominated books by think tanks, to the public understanding of the principles of liberty.

SMITH STUDENT OUTREACH AWARDBosnia and Herzegovina–based Association Multi was named winner of Atlas Network’s 2014 Smith Student Outreach Award for its projects that encourage students and young professionals to participate in the process of social change in the country.

Association Multi is the first libertarian organization in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It seeks to promote the ideas of liberty, focusing on the benefits of free initiative and entrepreneurship.

Launched in 2013, the Smith Student Outreach Award is an annual award recognizing the best student-focused project for liberty. The first winner was Estudantes pela Liberdade in Brazil. The winning organization receives $3,000 and is selected from among current-year grantees. The prize is sponsored by the Smith Family Foundation.

LIGHTS, CAMERA, LIBERTY!The Illinois Policy Institute won this year’s Lights, Camera, Liberty! Film Festival for its video Coffee Run: Chicago Forces Out Entrepreneurs, directed by Charles Fritschner. Coffee Run demonstrates the relationship between regulations and entrepreneurial activity, putting a human face to interstate business relocation. The video tells the story of Sarah Travis, a young, productive entrepreneur who is forced to take her great ideas to Texas because her beloved hometown of Chicago won’t approve her business. Two months after launch, nearly 30,000 people had watched to learn her story.

This is the third year Illinois Policy Institute has been in the top three of the film festival. The Lights, Camera, Liberty! program offers a year of workshops, on-site training, equipment and technology support, and a film festival competition for organizations committed to more effectively sharing the freedom message with key audiences through online video.

From left to right, Foundations of a Free Society author Eamonn Butler stands with Institute of Economic Affairs General Director Mark

Littlewood and Atlas Network’s Linda Whetstone and Brad Lips.

Matt Warner, Charles Fritschner, Vytautas Žukauskas, and Patrick Reasonover during the Lights, Camera, Liberty! award.

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Think Tank Leadership Training

Just before the start of Liberty Forum and Freedom Dinner, 42 participants, including project managers, fundraisers, marketers, and researchers from Atlas Network partners in 24 countries, took part in Atlas Leadership Academy’s Think Tank Leadership Training. Participants attended workshops and lectures on program

management, strategic planning, communications strategies, and fundraising. During the two-day program, they heard from leaders in the industry like John Tillman, CEO of Illinois Policy Institute; Joe Lehman, president of Mackinac Center for Public Policy; Matthew Elliott, chief executive of Business for Britain and founder of the TaxPayers’ Alliance; and Ann Fitzgerald, president of A.C. Fitzgerald & Associates.

John Tillman (Illinois Policy Institute), Sara Seal, and Zack Christenson (Crowdskout)

judging participant pitches

Matthew Elliott presenting on global communications

Tom G. Palmer opens LFFD

Rachel Kopec (SPN, U.S.)

Yeonmi Park and Casey Lartigue

Seth Lipsky and Judy Shelton

Welcoming Freedom’s Champions

Liberty Forum and Freedom Dinner welcoming remarks were made by Atlas Network’s executive vice president for international programs, Tom G. Palmer. He said, “The most precious benefit of freedom ... is dignity. The right of every human to enjoy liberty.”

Speed Networking

During a fast-paced, face-to-face, get-to-know-you session, Liberty Forum and Freedom Dinner participants quickly connected with freedom champions from all around the world during this Speed Networking session, generously sponsored by the State Policy Network.

Escaping North Korea, Discovering Freedom: The Story of Yeonmi ParkDuring Liberty Forum and Freedom Dinner, Yeonmi Park presented her story about escaping North Korea and discovering freedom. She is pictured with Casey Lartigue, an Atlas Network outreach fellow who is based in Seoul, South Korea, and works with the organization Freedom Factory.

Sound Money with Judy Shelton and Seth LipskyDuring a special session following the 2014 Liberty Forum & Freedom Dinner, Judy Shelton, Atlas Network senior fellow and co-director of Atlas Network’s Sound Money Project, and Seth Lipsky, founder and editor of the New York Sun, presented a session on sound money. The session was generously co-sponsored by Foundation for Economic Education.

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ATLAS CLUB BRIEFINGThe Atlas Club Briefing showcased heroes of Venezuela’s freedom movement. In 2005, Leopoldo López participated in a panel during the Liberty Forum program. In 2009, María Corina Machado also participated in a panel before the Freedom Dinner warning about the dangers of increased totalitarianism in Venezuela. Both continue their courageous fight: López in prison since Feb. 18, 2014, and Machado has been accused of conspiracy and banned from leaving the country.

After starting civil society, efforts López and Machado became leading political opponents of the Venezuelan Socialist regime. Major figures around the world have called for López’s release, but as he remains in jail he was represented by his aide Carlos Vecchio, and his sister Adriana. Vecchio explained how after López called for confronting the government through non-violent forms of protest, the movement he sparked posed such a threat to the government’s legitimacy that the corrupt government officials called for Leopoldo’s arrest. Leopoldo famously gave himself up, hoping that his arrest would awaken Venezuela to the corruption and

economic disaster caused by socialist rule.

Leopoldo’s sister, Adriana Lopez, also joined us for special recognition and she offered some insight into the sort of person that Leopoldo is and the horrible conditions under which Leopoldo is being held in prison.

Atlas Network Board Member Rene Scull, still living in Venezuela, introduced our speakers and took the time to recognize the staff and trustees of the think tank CEDICE of Venezuela — individuals who have seen their businesses stolen and their safety threatened as a consequence of their principled stands for freedom.

Atlas Club Briefing is a special benefit offered to members of our Atlas Club (the $1,000 and above giving level) and sponsors.

Chantilly Alberti and Joan Carter at Atlas Club Briefing

Don Smith and Viola Chaloupka

Rebecca Dunn with Garry Kasparov and his wife, Dascha

Terry Kibbe, Stephanie Giovanetti, Melissa Mann, and Marlene Mieske

Carlos Vecchio speaking at Atlas Club Briefing

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Alex Chafuen, Matthew Tyrmand, and Melanie Chafuen

Brad and Stephanie Lips with David Nott

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Baladevan Rangaraju with Linda Whetstone

Kyle and Lisa Miller with John and Jenny Cerasuolo

Vanessa Barbee, Julie Smith, and John Kunze

Al Canata, Camelia Mehrkar, Nan Hayworth, Kerry Halferty Hardy, Cynthia and Lawson Bader, and Arcadio Casillas at

Freedom Dinner

Tarun Vats with Kristina and Ed Crane

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Baishali Bomjan, Marlene Mieske, Neal Goldman, and Denise Mullin

Terry Kibbe, Barbara Kolm, and Kelly Halferty Hardy

Atlas Leadership Academy Graduates at Freedom Dinner, held at Capitale in NYC

Luke McGrath, Yuliya Tychkivska, Ron Manners, and Paul McCarthy

Debbi Gibbs, Nena Whitfield, and Stephanie and Brad Lips

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LIBERTY FORUM AND FREEDOM DINNER

Atlas Network’s 2014 Liberty Forum and Freedom Dinner took place during the week of the 25th Anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, and featured chess legend and

human rights champion Garry Kasparov (pictured at middle with Atlas Network’s Tom Palmer and Nick Gillespie of Reason Foundation).

I’ve attended most liberty-related conferences and major events in the country. Some events are bigger, many are a lot of fun,

but Atlas Network’s Liberty Forum is the most impressive in terms of consistently exceptional caliber of attendees and

speakers, the high-end quality of the venues, and how smoothly the entire event is run. The Atlas Network knows how to be effec-tive, and you can’t help but leave their events inspired, ready to

take meaningful action alongside phenomenal new friends. —Judd Weiss

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Kicking off Liberty Forum with Speed Networking

Ron Manners (Mannkal Economic Education Foundation, Australia) and Naomi Brockwell (“Bitcoin Girl”)

Rich Greenberg, Frederik Roeder, and Jed Sunden

Matthew Schmitto, Clark Ruper, Alex Chafuen, Austen Erickson, and Brittany Little from Students for Liberty

Cindy Cerquitella, Candelaria de Elizalde, Christiana Hambro, Ruzica Stojanovska, Tricia Yeoh, Zineb Benalla, Grace Courter,

Eline van den Broek, and Autumn Lansford

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Warren Lammert, Wayne Olson, and George Pearson

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Raul Brito and Mariela Vicini Julie Planck and Chuck Albers, Atlas Network board member

Bob Ewing, Kathleen O’Hearn, Jerry Brito, and Roman Hardgrave

Sabrina Schaeffer, Adele Malpass, and Whitney Athayde

Gil and Judy Shelton, Co-Director of Atlas Network’s Sound Money Project

René Scull, Atlas Network board member, speaking at Atlas Club Briefing

Peter Yakobe, Matt Warner, and Isaac Danford Students from Wellesley College dancing to The Mumblers after Freedom Dinner

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